Joey bookmarked The Smart Growth Manifesto

January 31, 2009 in business, creativity, economics, innovation, strategy

Joey bookmarked Academic Earth - Video Lectures from the World's Top Scholars

January 30, 2009 in education, learning, science, teaching

Joey bookmarked Credit / Debit / ATM Cards and Foreign Exchange

January 26, 2009 in money, travel

Joey bookmarked xkcd - I'm An Idiot

January 26, 2009 in xkcd

Joey bookmarked SVD Recommendation System in Ruby

January 20, 2009 in ai, programming, ruby

Seth Godin on the Value of True Fans

Successful web companies all seem to have two things in common: they have a passionate user base, and they have spent shockingly little - or nothing at all - on advertising to get them.

Some companies, like Google, Amazon and Flickr, have attracted their fans by building incredible tools. Others, like BoingBoing, by creating great content. However, no-one has done it by having an average product but running a great ad campaign. Ads and gimmicks can be good for a burst of traffic, but they're not scalable and they're not sustainable because they don't convert people into true fans and evangelists of your company.

In his new book, Tribes, Seth Godin speaks to the value of creating true fans:

Too many organizations care about numbers, not fans. They care about hits or turnstile clicks or media mentions. What they're missing is the depth of commitment and interconnection that true fans deliver. Instead of always being on the hunt for one more set of eyeballs, true leaders have figured out that the real win is in turning a casual fan into a real one.

January 20, 2009 in marketing, success, tribes

Joey bookmarked Conflict Escalation

January 12, 2009 in conflict, strategy, systems

The Rails Way returns! http://is.gd/f3lc

January 09, 2009 in twitter

Joey bookmarked Requests Per Second

January 09, 2009 in optimization, performance, programming, rails, webdev

Joey bookmarked Web Hooks and the Programmable World of Tomorrow

January 09, 2009 in internet, programming, webdev

Joey bookmarked And the Money Comes Rolling In

January 09, 2009 in business, strategy, success

@dabootski @marknutter Shoulda gets even cooler once you mix in Woulda: http://is.gd/3uaQ

January 08, 2009 in twitter

Joey bookmarked Free Speech, Free Minds, Free Markets

January 06, 2009 in freedom, opensource, wikipedia

Joey bookmarked Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret

January 05, 2009 in motivation, productivity, self-improvement, success

Joey bookmarked Do Ads Work?

January 03, 2009 in advertising, marketing

Joey bookmarked Things I’ve Learned and Loved in 2008

January 01, 2009 in happiness, learning, life, philosophy

Joey bookmarked The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code

December 31, 2008 in business, management, programming, webdev

@kashless Common Craft is great at making screencast-type videos that don't suck: http://tinyurl.com/yryfe4

December 31, 2008 in twitter

Stone Free: Find Free Alternatives to Consumer Goods

Stone Free is my first Greasemonkey script, designed to help you find free alternatives to consumer goods.

When you view an Amazon product page, Stone Free will search Craigslist's "free" section for listings similar to the item that you're looking at. Any results it finds get added directly to the Amazon page.

December 31, 2008 in free, freecycle, greasemonkey

Joey bookmarked In Search of Competition

December 27, 2008 in business, strategy